Unlock Competitor Insights: The Ultimate Guide to Scraping Facebook Posts

Extract data from hundreds of Facebook posts from one or multiple Facebook pages and profiles. Get post URL, post text, page or profile URL, timestamp, number of likes, shares, comments, and more. Download the data in CSV for use in spreadsheets and reports. 

What is IntelliLead Finder? 

• IntelliLead Finder is a simple and powerful Chrome Extension that allows you to extract data from Facebook posts directly from your browser. To get that data, just open the extension while browsing a Facebook Page, Group, or your News Feed and click the "Start" button.

• What Facebook posts data can I extract?

• With this tool, you will be able to extract comprehensive post details, including information about the author, the content, and the engagement metrics. The data fields you can extract include:

• 📝 Content: The full text of the Facebook post.

• 🔗 Post URL: The direct link to the post (AuthorUrl).

• 👤 Author & ID: The name (Author) and unique ID (AuthorId) of the user or page who created the post.

• 🗂 Published-To Details: The type of destination (PublishedToType), its ID (PublishedToId), URL (PublishedToUrl), and name (PublishedToName) (e.g., whether the post was made to a Group or a Page).

• 🕐 Timestamp: The exact date and time the post was published (Timestamp).

• 🖼 Attachments: Captions and links for any images or media included in the post (AttachmentCaptions).

• 💬 Comments: The count of comments (CommentCount) and details of the top-level comments, including their authors and content (TopLevelComments).

• 👍 Reactions: The total number of reactions (ReactionsTotal) and a detailed breakdown of each reaction type (Likes, Love, Haha, Sad, etc.) (ReactionsDetail).

• 📤 Shares: The total number of times the post has been shared (Shares).

Why scrape Facebook posts? 

Scraping Facebook posts provides invaluable competitive and market intelligence:

• Competition monitoring to identify what they're doing right, or wrong, and how you can do it better.

• Market research or analysis to gauge public interest and sentiment.

• Monitoring trends and brand sentiment and using the data to inform your content strategy.

• Social media analysis and identifying hot spots of engagement or misinformation.

How do I use IntelliLead Finder?

IntelliLead Finder was designed to be easy to start with, even if you've never extracted data from the web before. Here's how you can scrape Facebook data with this tool:

1. Install the IntelliLead Finder Chrome Extension.

2. Open Facebook and navigate to the page, profile, or feed you want to collect posts from.

3. Click the extension icon, set the number of posts to collect, and hit "Start Scraping."

4. Wait for the extension to automatically scroll and gather the data.

5. Download your data as a CSV file for use in Google Sheets or Excel.